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							<p>With over 59 million employed workers around the world, the Health Care Industry has become one of the largest and fastest-growing employment sectors worldwide. In US alone, 18 million workers are employed in the industry. Of the entire US health care workforce, nearly 80% is represented by the women populace. </p>
							
							<p>Health Care Workers (HCWs) are constantly exposed to a complex range of health and safety hazards. This includes physical hazards, such as noise, radiation, slips trips and falls; psychosocial hazards, such as shift work, violence and stress; ergonomic hazards, such as heavy lifting; biological hazards, such as TB, Hepatitis, HIV/AIDS, SARS; electrical hazards, such as frayed electrical cords; chemical hazards, such as, glutaraldehyde, ethylene oxide; and fire and explosion hazards, such as using oxygen, alcohol and sanitizing gels. Although prevention of these hazards is possible, incidents on injuries and illnesses among health care workers still continue to happen in the workplace. Among the highest rate of incident for hazards among healthcare workers in any industry sector is the cases of nonfatal occupational injury and illness. In contrast, construction and agriculture, two of the most hazardous industries, are much safer today than they were years ago. </p>
							
							<p>Just as much as construction and mining workers are protected from workplace hazards, Health Care Workers need protection as well. But because as part of their job, the patients come first, HCWs are usually viewed as "immune" to illness or injury. For the sake of their patients, a lot of times they are expected to sacrifice their own well-being. Thus, to improve the quality of care and to strengthen the health care system, protecting the health of the health care workers must also be prioritized. Adequate staffing, one of the measures to protect patients from infections, would as well protect health care workers from injury.  To have enough workforce of trained and healthy health care workers, their occupational health should be protected.</p>
							
							<p>The development of national programs for health care workers occupational health by the member states was given focus by the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Plan of Action on Workers Health. National campaigns for the immunization of health care workers against Hepatitis B have also been given an equally high importance. According to records provided by WHO, 37% of the Hepatitis B among health care workers was caused by occupational exposure.  Immunization is 95% effective in the prevention of infection with Hepatitis B, however, less than 20% of the health care workers in a lot of regions all over the world received all the doses needed for immunity. </p>
							
							<p>Less than 10% of the HIV among health care workers is caused by their work exposure, such as needle stick injuries. With practical, low-cost measures, the causes of 95% of the HIV occupational seroconversions, are preventable and also have the advantage of prevention of the exposure to other blood borne bacteria and viruses. </p>
							
							<p>Recent employment growth has not only been limited to hospitals, as being the major employer, but has also been channelled to several health maintenance organizations, offices of health practitioners, home health providers and ambulatory clinics and services. A global shortage of health personnel that has attained a crisis level in almost 57 countries has been reported by the 2006 World Health Report Working Together for Health on Human Resources. In effect, the organization has called and reached out for support and protection of the entire health workforce. </p>
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